V8 Catalog converted to V12: V12 Edit result sometimes in wrong time
Robert Eckerlin Oct 22, 2013 12:21 PMI converted my large V8 Catalog to V12.
After the conversion, with V12 I edited into Versionsets some jpeg photo files that I had already imported into the V8 Catalog (before it got converted to V12).
For some of these edited versions, the Time shown/set by the PSE V12 Organizer within the Photo-Bin (below the photo-Thumbnail) is wrong. With V12 the edited Version and the Original Version of the same photo have often not the same time. On my PC, for the edited Version of the Photo: the Time shown/set by the V12 Organizer is often off by two hours. As a result the Photo Thumbnails are not shown anymore within the Bin in the correct Time-Sequence (instead showing the Photos in Time-Sequence is based on the wrong Time set by V12). With Large catalogs, when shooting for example 100 photos within 2 hours, I therefore totally lose the overview of my photos.
With V8, I had no such problem. With V8, after an Edit, the edited Version always had the same time as the original photo.
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After making some detective Work, I noticed that the problem happens with those jpeg Fotofiles that i have shot in another Timezone as the Timezone of my Home (in Switzerland). Typically when I travel abroad to another Timezone, I forget (or do not care) to change the time setting of my Nikon D5000 camera. Therefore, after importing my Photos into the PSE catalog, I have to adapt the Time of my photos. I do that in the PSE Organizer with "Edit--> Adjust Date and Time". Until PSE V8, I had no problem with that.
But after the conversion of my PSE V8 Catalog to V12, when editing with V12 a photo file that i had imported into the V8 Catalog and for which I had adapted with V8 the Time: PSE V12 sets wrongly the time of the edited version.
What I have seen so far on my PC: it is by 2 hours, that the time is wrong.
Why 2 hours? Because this is the Time-difference between Central European Summer Time (this is the summer time in my home country of Switzerland) and Greenwhich mean time? Or is because this is twice the difference between Central European "Non-Summer" Time and Greenwhich Mean Time (i.e. instead of adding 1 hour to Greenwhich Mean Time, PSE V12 substracts 1 hour)?
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I made some additional tests: In V12 I used the PSE V12 Organizer for "A Shift by set number of hours (time zone adjust)" first by setting the time "Ahead" by two hours and then by setting the time "Back" by two hours. After doing that, the problem did not showed up anymore in the few Edit Tests that I have done so far..
But...I have (without counting the multiple versions within Versionsets) around 50'000 cataloged files. And in order to get rid of the problem, I have to expand individually each Versionset, in order to appply the "Ahead by two hours" and "Back by two hours" to each Version within the Versionset.. Doing all that "manually" is much too error-prone. What is needed is either a fix or a reliable Adobe-provided program that will correct what is recorded in the V12 Catalog.
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For some of my Photos, I have screenprints of what the PSE V8 Organizer and the PSE V12 Organizer show:
- the Photo thumbnail with the Date/Time shown by the Organizer below the thumbnail
- The Metadata (including various Date/Time fields) shown by the Organizer in the "Information" Section
Unfortunately, I can not upload them to the Forum. But if PSE Development is interested, I will be very happy to send them as email-attachment

